CES Attendees Make Light of CES Blackout in Hilarious Tweets

&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;Part of the huge tech trade show filled with electricity-powered gadgets lost power yesterday&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;

If there’s an inopportune place for a power outage to occur&comma; it’s CES&comma; an event filled with TVs&comma; appliances and all kinds of other gadgets fueled by electricity&period;

Yesterday&comma; a section of the huge Las Vegas trade show faced a blackout thanks to heavy rainfall in the desert city the day before&period; Oh&comma; the irony&excl;

Beginning at 11&colon;15 a&period;m&period; the power went out in the Central Hall and South Hall bridge meeting rooms in the Las Vegas Convention Center&period; While power was restored in the South Hall within minutes&comma; it took around two hours for the Central Hall to escape the darkness&period;

“A preliminary assessment indicates that condensation from heavy rainfall caused a flashover on one of the facility's transformers&comma;” the Las Vegas Visitor and Convention Authority&comma; NV Energy and Consumer Technology Association &lpar;CTA&rpar; said in a joint statement&period;

While I was a few blocks away in the Sands Expo & Convention Center when it happened&comma; I followed along on Twitter and kept my fingers crossed that other buildings would not suffer the same fate&period;

Attendees&comma; exhibitors and even the CTA itself expressed a range of sentiments related to the &num;CESBlackout&period; Social media analytics company Crimson Hexagon parsed Twitter data and found that&comma; by Thursday morning&comma; nearly 4&comma;200 tweets had been posted about relating to the incident&period; According to an email I received the company&comma; 53&period;8 percent of those tweets can be characterized by joy&comma; 18&period;9 percent by anger and 17&period;8 percent by sadness&period;

In other words&comma; most people got a kick out of it&period; That is&comma; despite that fact that many exhibitors&comma; who invested thousand of dollars to be at CES&comma; lost power to their products as well as valuable face time with attendees&period; Some attendees even lost power themselves&comma; such as those who were charging their phones in lockers when the outage struck and could not retrieve their devices&period;

Here’s a sample of tweets that capture the emotions that were swirling and ways people coped during the CES blackout -- as well as a fair share of jokes to make light of the lack of light&comma; even from brands&period;